Category Archives: Trading

As if we do not have enough acronym to worry about and a million “metric” to look at and “tell” us what is happening, here comes the REPO. 

David Stockman posted this figure on his tweeter account.

In this post, which might end up the longest post here, we are going to point out some of the trading ideas that seems interesting. In the process we might point out some earlier post related to these ideas.

This is the ticker for Marriott. I wanted to take a look at this stock and was really surprised with what I found.

Trading is a zero sum game.  Money does not come from vacuum.  For every winning trade, there is a loosing trade. If you understand that, then you should know that “massive trading”, i.e. a trade where everyone does the same thing, will not make anyone money.  The players and casino cannot both make money. CNBC… Read More »

I run many screens and try to find good shorts.  This screen was run in the middle of August with the following parameters:

It is hard to believe that a country sandwiched between two giants, China and Japan can have that much impact on the global economy. The population of South Korea is a little below 52, so it is not a small country but its economy, particular exports are being used as a yard stick for the… Read More »

If you have doing any trading in the market recently, almost from a year or so ago, you would have seen the anemic volume being traded daily on most stocks.  I am talking about stocks with 2B+ cap yet there is less than 5-10 million dollars worth of trading on the daily.   In some cases… Read More »

There are few companies that are sitting on large debt and are not generating positive cash flow.  Originally was looking to target these when the interest rate rise. But now that the interest rates are not going to rise, at least due to FEDs policies, the trades are not as convincing.  However, if financial conditions… Read More »

With volatility in markets perceived as low evident by the low Vix and with FEDs being on the move and almost 100% rate cut in July, some of the ideas being tossed around is buying cheap, due to low Vix, strangle on bond ETFs such at TLT or TMF.